Banish the Presenter Box

It's time to stop hiding behind a mask when you present. Instead, think of public speaking as an exploration of your personal boundaries and limits—and the opportunity to be yourself. (A commentary) ... more

Every presentation is an opportunity to improve

Every audience is an opportunity to improve your skills. Every audience is an opportunity to do better than last time. (Here's an example from a previous post.)Whether an audience is big or small, or your presentation is ten minutes or 90 minutes long, every audience deserves your best. http://coachlisab.blogspot.com/2009/02/every-presentation-is-opportunity-to.html

A Few Myths of Public Speaking

I took an informal poll recently among some speakers to determine what people tended to think were the hard and fast rules of public speaking – and see if any of those rules turned out to be myths.Read on ...

Use Visual aids in your next presentation

Professor Albert Mehrabian did a lot of research into how we take in information during a presentation. He concluded that 55% of the information we take in is visual and only 7% is text. There are some important conclusions that we can take in from this information Read on …

Speech Making Success Tip -Body language

Before you open your mouth to say the first word of your speech, you are communicating with the audience. Your stance, facial expression and body language are a picture that paints a thousand words. Make it calm, confident and pleasant, and you start "on the right foot"! So plant both of your feet, stand up straight and smile at them. You'll feel confident, sincere and professional and the audience will know. Than you can play with them. For free tips on using body language in your presentations, just send me an email.

Using humour images and cartoons in presentations

Have you talked in front of many people? Have you wondered what to do in order to get your ideas across? Any public speaker who has faced a crowd of listeners knows that humor has a great effect and brings out a point like nothing else. I have talked to many presenters and all of them say they have a number of jokes up their sleeve, as well as visual gags -- CARTOONS. Read on ...

Speech Making Success Tip

Before you open your mouth to say the first word of your speech, you are communicating with the audience. Your stance, facial expression and body language are a picture that paints a thousand words. Make it calm, confident and pleasant, and you start "on the right foot"! So plant both of your feet, stand up straight and smile at them. You'll feel confident, sincere and professional and the audience will know. Than you can play with them. More on Public Speaking